Science Inquiry and Process Skills Lab Activity Bundle

Everything you need to start your unit on science inquiry for your middle grades students! The bundle focuses on important foundational science skills such as observations, inferences, inquiry labs and processes skills. Five essential science resources all in one place!

Start your unit off right with an exciting lab experience with The Great Pencil Caper: An Observation and Inference Inquiry. Use the Observation Guide to enhance your student's observations during this lab. (You'll use this guide again and again during classroom activities!) After an inquiry lab experience your students can report their results using the Lab Report Template. This No Prep! Print and Go! template will be a big hit with you and your students! The Science Process Skills Poster Set will decorate your classroom and provide your students with visual reminders of science process skills to help them identify the skills they use during this lab. Finally, establish clear expectations and provide concise feedback for your students with the easy to use Activity Grade Sheet. This will become a tried and true resource in your classroom management tool kit.

INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE

The Great Pencil Caper an Observation and Inference Inquiry

This is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses a common everyday classroom supply, pencils! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short newspaper article about a pencil thief who is sneaking into classrooms and breaking pencils. The police are hoping that if they can figure out how the bandit is breaking the pencils it can lead to a break in the case. At this point students get to put their observation and inference skills to work to help the police make observations and inferences about how six pencils were broken. This activity fits nicely into a variety of science units including a forensics unit.

Observation Guide

Teaching students how to make quality observations can be difficult. To help my students with that problem I created this guide for my students to use when they need to make observations. When students have some ideas about what to observe they increase the quality and quantity of their observations.

Science Process Skills Posters

Help your students recognize what skills good scientists do with these bright and colorful science process skills posters. The 15 posters highlight the science process skills and give a brief description of what each skill means.

There are 14 science process skills posters in your choice of 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17, one title poster, and two pages of mini-posters which can be photocopied and passed out to students to keep in their binders or to parents to keep at home as a reference.

The 14 process skills covered in this poster set are:

• Classify
• Scientific Method
• Use Numbers
• Observe
• Measure
• Experiment
• Communicate
• Define Operationally
• Variable
• Hypothesize
• Predict
• Infer
• Form Models
• Interpret Data

Lab Report Template

Provide your students with an easy to use lab report format to summarize results from science inquiry projects. This is a one-page lab-write up format helps students communicate their lab results in a straight forward and simple way. Using this tool reinforces good science inquiry habits and scientific thinking.

Activity Participation Grade Sheet

Provide your students with clear, direct feedback about their participation and behavior during classroom activity with this easy to use rubric. When students are clear about your expectations they will be able to better manage and modify their own behavior to achieve their best results. This grade sheet is quick and easy for teachers to use in class while their students are completing group activities.

The grade sheet is simple and works for any subject. It is perfect for students in grades 3-12. The grade sheet focuses on five important skills:

• use of materials
• following directions
• working with group
• staying in assigned area
• clean up

Everything in this bundle will become tried and true resources that you go to again and again. Save money and time when you purchase them in one place!

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